How to use Forward Snap

Basic flow

Forward Snap is a place to save the useful part of a conversation before it disappears into chat history. Use it for the moment when an AI answer, customer quote, product direction, or rough founder note becomes worth keeping.

1. Capture the useful content from an AI conversation, meeting note, research pass, or product discussion.
2. Give the snapshot a short name that describes the decision, idea, or reference.
3. Add a focus tag when the note belongs to a specific product, feature, customer segment, or workstream.
4. Keep the snapshot readable enough that future you can understand it without reopening the original chat.
5. Search snapshots later when you need to recover the thinking behind a decision.

Use it for

• AI chat summaries
• Product directions
• Feature ideas
• Customer language
• Research notes
• Founder decisions you may need later
• Implementation notes that are not ready to become tasks yet

What makes a good snapshot

A good snapshot is short enough to scan and specific enough to be useful later. It should preserve the context, not just the conclusion.

• Start with the core idea or decision.
• Keep the original wording when the wording matters.
• Add links, quotes, or source notes when they explain where the idea came from.
• Use tags for retrieval, not decoration.
• Update the snapshot when the idea changes instead of creating near-duplicates.

Focus tags

Focus tags connect snapshots to the areas of work they support. A tag can represent a product line, customer group, feature area, research topic, or personal operating theme.

Use an existing focus tag when the snapshot clearly belongs to an active area. Create a new one only when the note introduces a durable new area of work.

Keep editing

Snapshots are editable. Clean up the note when your thinking changes, and keep the durable version close to the source. Forward Snap is meant to preserve momentum, not freeze a rough thought forever.

MCP-based imports

Forward Snap is designed to work with MCP-style sources. An integration can send selected content, source metadata, tags, and a suggested summary into Snap so the saved note already has structure when it arrives.

• Integrate ChatGPT
• Integrate Gemini

When to use Stand or Stack instead

Use Forward Snap when the material is still context, memory, or raw thinking. Use Forward Stand when you want agents to debate, pressure-test, or refine that context. Use Forward Stack when the work is ready to become concrete tasks, daily plans, or execution steps.